Although rakugo performed in English is currently gaining popularity all over the world
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Category: TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Okasaki-Jinja Shrine
, popular with people who love rabbits, which in this place have a beneficial effect for couples or women wishing to have children, for childbirth, marriage, marital harmony and the education of children
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Gion Matsuri and beautiful pictures
A traditional Japanese candy, which was originally called ‘Yukari’.
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Interview a kondanshi named Takarai Kinkaku
I had the opportunity and the pleasure to interview her recently, to find out what inspired her to become a kodan storyteller.
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Japanese people float stars in their tea?! Talking about Ukihoshi
A traditional Japanese candy, which was originally called ‘Yukari’.
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Businessman and Tea Master, Yamada Torajiro: One of the First Japanese People to Convert to Islam
When the 264-year-old isolationist foreign policy of the Tokugawa shogunate was finally lifted ….
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Learn Japan’s southernmost prefecture, OKINAWA Part2
Cape Zanpa in Yomitan Village is the first of many spectacular capes that dot the eastern coastline. The …
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It’s A Month Of Hydrangea!!! Hydrangea Myth!
As you must know, the Japanese love nature and during the period June – July, it is the turn of the essential colorful hydrangea
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Learn Japan’s southernmost prefecture, OKINAWA Part1
Many Americans probably know Okinawa by its association with the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, which was …
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TERASAKA KICHIEMON: THE 47TH RONIN
The incident created quite a stir at a time when samurai virtues had seemingly been forgotten during the long peaceful years of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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The month of May in Kyoto, Introducing Matsuri
You can now better imagine the horsemen and archers in their period costumes, on their beautiful and colorful steeds dating back to the Heian period.
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MATSUNAGA HISAHIDE: DAIMYO, INFAMOUS SCHEMER, AND TEA ENTHUSIAST
An angry Oda Nobunaga surrounded Matsunaga in Shigisan Castle and demanded his head. A tea enthusiast, he also sought a very valuable tea item that was in Matsunaga’s possession, the Hiragumo.
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